REVIEW: Contribution of Genosystematics to Current Concepts of Phylogeny and Classification of Bryophytes

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A. V. Troitsky^1*, M. S. Ignatov², V. K. Bobrova¹, and I. A. Milyutina¹

¹Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; fax: (495) 939-3181; E-mail: tav@genebee.msu.su

²Main Botanic Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Botanicheskaya 4, 127276 Moscow, Russia; E-mail: misha_ignatov@list.ru

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Received September 17, 2007

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This paper is a survey of the current state of molecular studies on bryophyte phylogeny. Molecular data have greatly contributed to developing a phylogeny and classification of bryophytes. The previous traditional systems of classification based on morphological data are being significantly revised. New data of the authors are presented on phylogeny of Hypnales pleurocarpous mosses inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the nuclear DNA internal transcribed spacers ITS1-2 and the trnL-F region of the chloroplast genome.

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KEY WORDS: molecular phylogenetics, genosystematics, hepatics, liverworts, hornworts, pleurocarpous ITS1-2, trnL-F

DOI: 10.1134/S0006297907120115

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